Kamloops centenarian celebrates 77th Mother’s Day
KAMLOOPS — After her Mother died in 1905, American Anna M. Jarvis began campaigning for a day to honour all mothers. In 1908, the first Mother’s Day Service was held in West Virginia, and by 1914, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill declaring the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. One year before Mother’s Day was recognized across the U.S. Francis Watt was born in England. We spoke the centenarian yesterday about being a Mother, and how she’s seen the job change over the years.
You can’t change the cards you’re dealt in life; just how you play them.
Frances Watt just keeps playing those cards. Yesterday the 104-year-old celebrated her 77th Mother’s Day, with her eldest daughter, Kitty McAllister by her side.